Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “language”

The Frink is Good, the Unit is Evil • Hillel Wayne

One day Alan Eliasen read a fart joke and got so mad he invented a programming language. 20 years later Frink is one of the best special purpose languages for dealing with units. “But why do we need a language just for dealing with units?” Glad you asked! Intro to Units A unit is the physical property a number represents, like distance or time. We almost always are talking about SI units, or Système international.

Opinion | (Let Us Out of This Clause) - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2020/07/06/opinion/parentheses-coronavirus-writing.html

This Language Names Odors As Precisely As English Speakers Name Color | Discover Magazine

discovermagazine.com/mind/this-language-names-odors-as-precisely-as-english-speakers-name-color

How do you sign 'Black Lives Matter' in ASL? For black deaf Angelenos, it's complicated - Los Angeles Times

latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-08/how-do-you-sign-black-lives-matter-in-asl-for-black-deaf-angelenos-its-complicated

Guess my word

hryanjones.com/guess-my-word/

Eunoia: Words that Don't Translate

eunoia.world/

GÉNERO NEUTRO Y LENGUAJE INCLUSIVO: UNA PEQUEÑA GUÍA PRÁCTICA

lauredalediciones.noblogs.org/files/2019/02/LENGUAJE_INCLUSIVO.pdf

BBC - Future - The simple words that save lives

bbc.com/future/story/20190919-the-simple-words-that-save-lives

Lessons from “expert talkers” could make all the difference when helping a person in crisis.

BLUF: The Military Standard That Can Make Your Writing More Powerful - Animalz

animalz.co/blog/bottom-line-up-front/

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers | At a Loss for Words | APM Reports

apmreports.org/story/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading

MIT Scientists prove adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as children

medium.com/@chacon/mit-scientists-prove-adults-learn-language-to-fluency-nearly-as-well-as-children-1de888d1d45f

This week a new paper was published in the journal Cognition titled “A Critical Period for Second Language Acquisition” that used a new, viral Facebook-quiz-powered method of gathering a huge…

‘So many of our children had a loss to mourn. Isn’t that what poetry’s for?’

theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/31/kate-clanchy-some-kids-i-taught-and-what-they-taught-me

How the Appetite for Emojis Complicates the Effort to Standardize the World’s Alphabets - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2017/10/18/magazine/how-the-appetite-for-emojis-complicates-the-effort-to-standardize-the-worlds-alphabets.html

Losing your first language? Here’s how to rediscover your voice | Monika Schmid | Opinion | The Guardian

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/first-language-voice-mother-tongue-attrition-brexit

How Feminists in China Are Using Emoji to Avoid Censorship

wired.com/story/china-feminism-emoji-censorship/amp

Introducing the JavaScript Internationalization API – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog

hacks.mozilla.org/2014/12/introducing-the-javascript-internationalization-api/

Firefox 29 issued half a year ago, so this post is long overdue. Nevertheless I wanted to pause for a second to discuss the Internationalization API first shipped on desktop ...